Parker
County Poor Farm
| Marker
Number: |
3940 |
| Marker
Title: |
Parker County Poor Farm and Cemetery |
| Index
Entry: |
Parker County Poor Farm & Cemetery |
| Address: |
Tin Top Rd., S of Weatherford |
| City: |
Weatherford |
| County: |
Parker |
| UTM
Zone: |
14 |
| UTM
Easting: |
612871 |
| UTM
Northing: |
3619698 |
| Subject
Codes: |
GY; PF; |
| Year
Marker Erected: |
1986 |
| Designations: |
na |
| Marker
Location: |
From Weatherford, take Tin Top Road 3 miles
south, maker is on east side of highway. |
| Marker
Size: |
18" x 28" |
| Repairs
Completed: |
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| Marker
Text: |
Created in 1883, a farm near this site
housed the county's indigent citizens. Farm residents and some
county convicts worked to grow crops and raise livestock.
Although entire families were once housed at the farm, by the
1930s the residents were mostly elderly. Their barracks-style
house was moved to Weatherford in the 1940s after the farm was
closed. A small cemetery was created here, and contains one
legible marker. Additional grave sites have been marked with
bricks. The earliest documented burial is from 1904, and the
last was in 1937. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986. |
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